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Seminal is mostly used for an idea, book, piece of research, or piece of art that is so original and important that many later works grow out of it — like a seed that other things sprout from. 'A seminal paper' in science is one that changes how people think and leads to many other studies. There is also an older, more technical meaning connected to semen and reproduction, but in normal daily English, almost every time you hear 'seminal,' it means 'hugely influential, and first of its kind.'
開創性的、影響深遠的（生物醫學上也有「精液的」意思，但日常較少這樣用）
組成From Latin 'semen,' meaning seed. The idea is that a seminal work is like a seed that other ideas grow from.
同家族的字
- seminarboth come from Latin 'semen,' seed — a seminar was first a kind of seed-bed for ideas
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
seminaladj/ˈsɛmɪnəl/
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Of or relating to seed or semen.
- During the summer, he studied calmars at Lisbon, but found no appearance of any roe, nor any reservoir which appeared to be destined for the reception of the seminal liquor; and it was in the middle of December, that he began to discern the first traces of a new vessel replete with a milty juice.
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Creative or having the power to originate.
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Highly influential, especially in some original way, and providing a basis for future development or research.
- "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" was a seminal work in the modern philosophy of science.
- The idea of God is, beyond all question or comparison, the one great seminal principle.
seminalnoun/ˈsɛmɪnəl/
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obsoleteA seed.
- the seminals of spiders and scorpions
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。